I've just read One Day by David Nicholls and recommend it to anyone between the ages of 20 and 80. It deals with all of the life stages that we go through in a sensitive and highly moving way. The stories of two people unfold in parallel and they meet up from time to time - it is a chronicle of missed opportunities and "if onlys". Far more than a love story, One Day shows how we can become swept up in ambitions, always working towards something we perceive as better when, all the time, the really valuable things are under our noses. I liked it so much that I read in over a weekend then lent it to a friend.
I'm now reading Fool's Alphabet by Sebastian Faulks, having just finished his Girl at Lion D'or. I wasn't keen on the latter as the heroine didn't evoke any sympathy in my view. I wanted the main male character to come to his senses and stay with his wife, which of course he eventually did. The ex-mistress then thought briefly of dying before pulling herself together and moving on. My favourite of Faulk's books is Engleby - a psychological study of a killer set in modern times.
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